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Article: LYCOS ASIA WINS LICENSE IN CHINA AUTHORITIES GIVE OK TO FOREIGN-OWNED WEB SITE
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 11, 2000
- Author:
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Lycos Inc.'s affiliate in Asia has received a license from Chinese
authorities to operate one of China's first foreign-owned Web sites.
Control over online content is a touchy matter for China's
authoritarian rulers, who are wary of the Internet but also need to
abide by the rules of the World Trade Organization, which the country
is in the process of joining.
Those rules require foreign investors to be allowed to operate
companies outright. Currently, foreign Web companies operate in China
only through through partnerships with Chinese institutions that can
exert control. Yahoo Inc., for instance, says its cn.yahoo.com site
is a joint venture with a company controlled by Beijing University ...
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